Wahhabi clerics call to boycott Iranian products

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -  Calls to boycott Iranian products are gaining support in the region after a meeting of leading Sunni clerics in Cairo urged Muslims to declare a jihad against the Syrian regime supported by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters.A declaration issued by the meeting also called for a boycott of ‘products, companies and interests’ of Iran. Several Kuwaiti supermarket chains have already begun boycotting Iranian goods.Representatives of 76 Islamic organisations from the Arab world and some non-Arab Muslim countries, including noted Qatar-based Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi were present at the meeting.This declaration in its ridiculous posturing declared that Iran and Hezbollah are responsible for the violence in Syria, while in the following of that, invited to equip the mercenary forces in Syria.The signatories included representatives of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, headed by Qaradawi, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Union of Al Sham Scholars and the Union of African scholars.Clerics from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Algeria, Sudan Kurdistan, (Iraq) and Jordan, among other countries attended the meeting. A senior scholar from Egypt’s leading religious institution Al Azhar, Hassan Al Shafai was also present. End item/ 149